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Gorgias · Joined: 27 Aug 2005

Next time way-gook--

I passed you at the intersection by Pizza Hut at 5:00am yesterday. I waved and nodded, and you looked at me like I was some kind of alien.

Be aware buddy, I'll remember you! Next time I see you-- I'm gonna be even friendlier. I might even speak to you!

So just be ready.

visitor q · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:54 am Post subject:

Haha - I hear you man. Some of these twats here are just morbidly unfriendly. Poor guy has probably never been anywhere else besides Canaduh and Korea, and has no idea of what being a human is.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Hey, you way-gookin stranger,

Didn't anyone ever teach you that a wave and a nod are an invasion of my privacy? And no, don't smile at me either. My personal space extends as far as I can see. The fact that we both have white faces is an accident that does not entitle you to the rights of friendship, or common courtesy for that matter. I don't want to hear about your crappy day, your crappy boss, your crappy job or the crappy weather, the crappy hwang sa, the crappy traffic or your spin on the crappy WBC. I don't want to discuss which country you came from or tell you which one I came from. I don't want to tell you why I'm in Korea or how long I've been here and I don't want to hear why or how long you've been here.

Please, in the future stay out of my sight-line or else keep your waves, nods and smiles to yourself.

Now excuse me, I have got to go take my meds. (Exit humming: "Hey! you! Get off of my cloud...Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd on my cloud, baby.")

Signed,
Too Cool For You Cool

Beej · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Location: Eungam Loop

OP,
Do you wave to everyone on the street or just white people?

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject:

The "waygooks" make up 1 % of the population here.

So forgive one of them for trying to be friendly.

jaderedux · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Lurking outside Seoul

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

sadsac · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Gwangwang

On the part of the individual who ignored you, he may not have spoken English. We automatically assume white anglo saxon, Celtic whatever, is going to be English speaking. Not always the case. That's in defence of the individual. Personally I have been snubbed by more people, than I have by people returning the hello, hi, how are you. I just put it down to "I've got better things to do than say hello to you." Smile

riley · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me

Hey foriegner, I live in the same neighborhood with you. I even go to the same GYM as you and you still can't acknowledge me? What's with the dirty look? Are you making snap judgements about me? WTF?

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Hey, foreigner -- yeah, you. The white one with the Korean(?) wife, who I've seen a few times pushing a baby pram down near the bottom of the hill. You moved to Guruland sometime last year, didn't you? In Spring, maybe? Well, just so you won't think I'm one of those standoffish long-timer types too full of ourselves, too wrapped up in our own stylish, mysterious, dangerous lives to notice you as we fly by at the speed of sound, either leaving or returning to our difficult-to-give-directions-to Batcave-like fortifications at the crest of the mountain: "Hi! Smile

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